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Your Role at Cabot
Manages the forecasting, production planning and import planning processes for multiple product lines for Asia South (based in Indonesia) in the most efficient and cost effective way. Maintains a broad understanding of all planning initiatives and communicates these initiatives, while working with other functional areas
How You Will Make An Impact

• Work with SBU, customers and customer care representatives within the region or site to understand demand.
• Ensure the plants have adequate capacity to meet demand throughout the short- term plans.
• Manage the SKU holdings at all facilities in the region and contribute to the long range planning process.
• Work with Business units to generate forecasts over a18-month horizon with focus on next 3 months and facilitate continuous improvements to forecast accuracy. Understand economic trends and their impact on demand.
• Ensure compliance with all policies, procedures and standard business practices as they pertain to purchasing and inventory management functions, including internal control and ISO 9000 standards.
• Manage the forecasting and planning tools and processes including developing new or modified tools.
• Complete short-range demand planning analysis and recommend solutions to capacity problems.
• Ensure inventory levels are consistent with cost and service criteria defined by regional and/or global management to optimally support Cabot’s business strategy.
• Work with supply chain team to determine capacity and FPI inventory requirements for production, packing, warehouse, and shipping.

What You Will Bring To Cabot

• Possess a working knowledge of strategic planning, forecasting and inventory planning, management budgeting practices and the capital planning process.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the aptitude to impact and influence all levels of employees and management, both inside the company and externally with suppliers.
• Business management skills including the ability to develop, translate and manage strategy, to formulate and monitor budgets, expenses, and to manage costs.
• Good negotiation and problem solving skills
• Knowledge of Inventory Management Processes, Production Scheduling & Control, and MRP Systems.
• Possess proficiency in demand planning tools, such as JDA, SAP and linear programming packages.
• Understanding of plant capabilities, throughput constraints of the plant units and each plant’s bottleneck, rates and cycle times.